Monday, August 25, 2008

Whenever I hear the term “Expose Yourself To Art,” I think of the above photograph. It was taken in or about the early 1980’s, and at the time I thought it was clever.

I would have likely forgotten the picure, but later I learned that the man in the photo was the mayor of Portland, Oregon, and he was promoting a local arts festival. (I admired his creative imagination. I admired his dedication. At the same time, I wondered if he was re-elected.)

Did the idea work? Ya might say so. 28 years later the poster is still being sold along with other festival promotional pictures.

In Xanadu did Kubla Kahna stately pleasure-dome decree:where Alph, the sacred river, ranthrough caverns measureless to mandown to a sunless sea.So twice five miles of fertile groundwith walls and towers were girdled round:And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;And here were forests ancient as the hills,enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

Jack Bunny is the alter ego of a playwright, theatrical director, and drama critic. If you are at a party and see a 150 pound rabbit at the punch bowl, it might be him!

(On the other hand, it might also mean that perhaps you should step away from the punch bowl for awhile.)

Available Plays

ANOTHER DUMB GHOST STORY(Full length)

THE REVENANT(Full length)

CORIE(Full length)

MORGAN(Full length)

VOLLEYS(Full length)

ELYCE TIMES ONE(Full length - written with J.E. Ocean)

THE DISENCHANTED FROG(Children's One-act)

THE ART OF BUILDING BRIDGES(One-act)

FROM MY VANTAGE POINT(One-act)

THE TRIAL(One-act)

WHAT'S NEW IN LATHERDUE?(Reader theatre One-act)

ROUGH DRAFT(One-act)

THE GRAND GILDER(One-act)

Old friend remembered

FAVORITE QUOTES

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.George Bernard Shaw

I hate writing, I love having written.Dorothy Parker

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

Will Rogers

It must be summer. I can smell California burning.

J.E. Ocean

Starbucks is where certain relationships go to die.

Samantha Stover

I can only answer the question 'What am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question, 'Of what story do I find myself a part?'

Alisdair MacIntyre

Walmart always makes me cry ...

Q

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Mark Twain

The Bible in the hand of one man is more dangerous than a whiskey bottle in the hand of another.

Harper Lee

Can people stop dying please? Just for a little bit. maybe.

Samantha Stover

Mettle not in the affairs of Dragons, for thou art crunchy and good with ketchup.

Unknown

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise in heart.

Proverbs 11:29

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned/nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

This above all: to thine own self be true.And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

In my many years I have come to the conclusion that one useless person is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a Congress.

John Adams

Wearing underwear is as formal as I get.

Ernest Hemingway

"Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain ..."

Our revels now are ended.

These, our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air:

And like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.